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With the possibility of a Democrat holding a US House seat in the state for the first time in two decades, the race drew worldwide attention. On the tape, which was being reviewed by police Wednesday evening, Gianforte does not ask Jacobs to lower the recorder.

That itself was laughable given how much Republicans had properly criticized congressional Democrats for rushing through their health care overhaul without having a full grasp on its effects. Senate Republicans have begun writing the text of their Obamacare repeal-and-replacement legislation, which is expected to be vastly different from the version the House passed May 4.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency, without citing a source, reported that the South fired about 90 machine gun rounds into the air and toward North Korea . Moon won an election last week campaigning on a more moderate approach to the North and said after taking office that he wants to pursue dialogue as well as pressure to stop the North's weapons programmes.

Papademos was appointed Prime Minister in November 2011 amid political and economic turmoil. A police official said the explosion occurred when Papademos opened an envelope inside the vehicle. Police said an explosive device hidden in an envelope detonated inside the 69-year-old's auto . By late Thursday it remained unclear who was behind the blast though the methodology was reminiscent of a spate of parcel bombs in March.

Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip staged protests for days during his visit , including most recently on Tuesday where they also called for solidarity with the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel jails who have begun their sixth week of a hunger strike .

Somali women and security forces search through the damage caused at the scene of a blast near the Mogadishu sea port in Mogadishu, Somalia, May 24, 2017. Last week, an improvised bomb killed four people in a vehicle, including a minor. Last week, al-Shabab militants shot and killed a local official at his home in a small town 20 kilometers from Mandera town.

During Trump's first stop on his four-nation tour , the Saudis pledged to spend billions on infrastructure projects in the US and military equipment but the arms deal has raised red flags in Israel . US President Donald Trump has insisted that he " never mentioned " Israel in a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at which he reportedly shared highly classified information from a foreign partner.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) won 33 percent of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia's state election on Sunday, official projections showed. But defeats in two other state elections since late March have left the party trailing in the polls. The Left Party, meanwhile, failed to clear the 5-percent hurdle to enter the state parliament, with results showing the party at 4.9 percent.

Trump's revised order, which temporarily barred new visas from Libya , Somalia , Sudan , Iran , Yemen and Syria , as well as suspending the United States refugee resettlement program, was a streamlined version of a ban issued in January that was chaotically ruled out and blocked by federal courts across the country.

On Wednesday, the New York Times outraged British police and government officials when it published photos appearing to show debris from the attack. Abrini visited Manchester in 2015. Intelligence officials even knew of his links to a militant Islamist group in Libya and to Isis-linked jihadists in the United Kingdom, but Abedi was still allowed to travel from Libya to Britain several weeks before launching his attack.

President Donald Trump ended a visit to Tehran's arch-foe Saudi Arabia where arms deals worth nearly $110 billion were signed. However, while Rouhani's greatest political achievement to date has perhaps been the 2015 agreement with six major powers, including the United States , to curbing Iran's nuclear program , the Iranian president insisted that ballistic missile tests would continue "if technically necessary".

It has been an expensive standoff: Assange's first three-year stay in the Ecuadorean embassy alone cost the British taxpayers £11.1 million ($14.4 million). Following this, Assange tweeted an image of himself smiling, but refrained from making any further comments. Julian Assange dubbed news that Sweden dropped its rape probe against him as an "important victory" and a vindication but vowed "the proper war is just commencing".

Democrat Rob Quist , a banjo-playing folk singer and first-time candidate, is facing off against Republican tech executive Greg Gianforte in a tightening race for the U.S. She added that Gianforte then began to punch Jacobs. In an audio recording posted by The Guardian , the reporter asks the congressional candidate about the health care bill.

Government soldiers on military vehicles patrol after a continued assault on fighters from the Maute group who have taken over large parts of Marawi city, southern Philippines May 26, 2017. The United States has offered a US$5 million (S$6.93 million) reward for Hapilon's capture. He is at the nexus of several militant groups that are trying to merge into a more powerful force.

Officials said it is believed he has information that could be helpful in the inquiry, but that doesn't mean he is suspected of any crimes and is in a different category than Paul Manafort , Trump's former campaign manager, and Michael Flynn , Trump's former national security adviser, who are considered subjects of the investigation.

But with Monday's Washington Post report that Trump also tried to separately persuade two senior intelligence officials to publicly deny the links between his campaign and Russian Federation, what we have now is a broad and targeted campaign by Trump to halt the investigation into his campaign accompanied by an effort to sow doubt in the minds of Americans.

Flynn, through counsel, denied an initial request by the Senate to review any such documents in an April 28 letter, Reuters reported. In addition to Flynn, the committee is also zeroing on former Trump camaign aide Carter Page, who has also expressed an unwillingness to cooperate.

In particular, Wittes writes about a time when Comey actually tried to hide in the drapes to avoid interacting with the president. There was a bombshell political crisis coming from the White House almost every day this week. 22, 2017. It says the president then told Russia's foreign minister and ambassador that he "faced great pressure because of Russian Federation". Trump himself had already contradicted that explanation, telling interviewers earlier that he had already chose to ...

I have to pass my condolences to the families, the victims. The tragedy is in my mind. The Man United Europa League victor also confirmed he had discussions with Boca Juniors in January about a possible move, but he noted "I was not wrong to stay here".

That's how the reporter in question - The Guardian's Ben Jacobs - described the physical altercation he had with Gianforte after he crashed a Fox News interview to ask the Republican about his thoughts on the Congressional Budget Office's score of the GOP health care plan.

Praising Trump's leadership once more before the USA president departed Israel for Europe, Netanyahu told his friend and ally that 'working with you, I believe we can advance a durable peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors'. And in today's attack it was mostly innocent children. "Our society can have no tolerance for this continuation of bloodshed", he said at the start of his press conference with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas .

Today, the high court ruled that placing a substantial number of voters inside or outside a district due to their race is forbidden, even when, as here the state contends, it acted not with a racial motive but to gain partisan advantage.

It's understood the seven-month-old was the only child of the couple, who married past year. When he returned to the auto later, he found the child unresponsive. They are involved in local GAA and are well known throughout their home communities. Fianna Fail county councillor Roger Kennedy said the whole area has been left numb by the bad tragedy.

Peters says the bills will address the unique needs of the Great Lakes. The change would also hold Great Lakes pipeline owners responsible for up to $134 million in economic damages caused by a spill and require them to provide proof of their financial ability to cover such penalties to operate their pipelines.

Out May 30, the book dedicates an entire chapter to his Senate colleague Ted Cruz , which he titled "Sophistry" - ie: the use of deceptive or false reasoning in arguments. Klobuchar had softened the joke when she and Franken told Cruz about it, at which point, Cruz gave them a "patronizing" lecture about the First Amendment.

And gave a speech in which he neglected to actually endorse Article 5 while lecturing other world leaders that they should pay up. Trump said that 23 of 28 member nations do not pay what they should for their defense and pointed out that the US has spent more than all other member nations combined over the last eight years.

Britain is on its highest terror alert level following Monday's bombing, meaning another attack is thought imminent, and police are searching for the perpetrator's accomplices. Residents in Manchester say Mrs Abedi is with her husband in Libya, together with Hisham, 20, and the couple's daughter, Jomana, 18. The young men's mother returned the travel document about one week ago when Salman told his parents he wanted to travel to Saudi Arabia to prepare a pilgrimage to Mecca, according to ...

Fiery Cross Reef is administered by China but also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan. As Philippines turns soft in assert her claim on the South China Sea , the ImageSat International (ISI), a satellite operated by an Israel company, reported and interpreted some images, which shows China is establishing their anti-ship missiles in the Yulin Naval Base in the South of Hainan Island in the South China Sea .

The Washington Post delivered yet another bombshell about the Russian Federation investigation on Monday night, with Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima reporting that at some point before the May 9 firing of James Comey , senior White House officials "sounded out top intelligence officials about the possibility of intervening directly with Comey to encourage the FBI to drop its probe of Michael Flynn ".

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John Shimkus, a member of the House's Energy and Commerce Committee, told CNN when asked about whether Congress needs to appropriate the money now for the Obamacare subsidies. They don't want to chance assuming these payments will get made - and not having the payments come through. If that doesn't happen - and it now looks like it won't - insurance executives have told me they plan to try to raise premiums, reflecting an assumption that the CSR subsidies don't get paid.

They are ready to reach for peace. In a country where symbolism is so important, Trump made a number of important gestures that left Israelis elated, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . Meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem , Donald Trump condemned those behind the deadly bombing in Manchester, England, the night before as "evil losers".

The former head of the CIA, John Brennan , during his presentation before the select Committee on intelligence of the house of representatives, said that Russian Federation blatantly intervened in the U.S. Brennan also meanwhile addressed news reports that Trump, in an Oval Office meeting this month with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador, shared highly classified information provided by a U.S.

A plan to reaffirm the spending pledge made three years ago "means nothing more or less than that", she said. His arrival was also shadowed by new criticism from British Prime Minister Theresa May , who complained about leaks of intelligence to the American media about this week's deadly bombing at a concert in Manchester, England.

Officials are examining Abedi's trips to Libya as they worked to piece together his allegiances and foil any new potential threats. News of what happened in the lead up to the attack at Manchester Arena comes as authorities speculate about the involvement of a larger terrorist cell outside Britain .

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania wave as they board Air Force One to travel to Rome from Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv May 23, 2017 . The Palestinian prisoners' affairs committee called for a "day of rage" on Monday for "the voice of the prisoners to be heard by the president". Trump had arrived in Bethlehem by motorcade, crossing a checkpoint at Israel's controversial separation wall, and was greeted by Abbas and other dignitaries outside the city's ...

The tax world is keeping a close watch on Capitol Hill this week as lawmakers and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will be speaking publicly about tax reform and President Donald Trump's budget request. "Boeing continues to follow the lead of the USA government with regards to working with Iran's airlines, and any and all contracts with Iran's airlines are contingent upon US government approval", a spokeswoman said by email.

He shared a photo of himself with dad Edward Zuckerberg and mom Karen Kempner on Facebook after receiving his honorary Doctor of Laws degree. "It mostly looks the same", he said. Zuckerberg said. Mark cracked a bunch of jokes about the irony of going from Harvard dropout to graduation speaker. In the " Most Read " section the second story is, "Boy wonder Mruff Zunderbrall scores winning goooal!" "This is where I programmed Facebook", he recalled as he gestured toward a desk.

But, one is left to wonder whether residents of Mosul feel the same way . "Post-blast analysis detected residues common to explosives used by Isis , but not consistent with the explosive content of a GBU-38 munition", US Central Command said in a statement .

It was United's sixth European trophy and the only major piece of silverware missing from its collection. "We preferred to reach the Champions League this way than finish fourth, third or second", he continued. Since the beginning we had this in our minds. "They were the first British club [to win it] obviously, that set the path", Ferguson said. If he goes, Rooney expects to be foregoing more medals given United have found in Mourinho "the right man to lead them".

Ultimately, the decision is one that May and her security chiefs believed they had to take in urgent circumstances. Manchester police would not comment on information-sharing, but said at a news conference that the families of attack victims were distressed by leaks .

Of the 10, Gregory had the court's majority decision and four of his colleagues issued individual opinions that offered different grounds, some narrower than others, for concluding that the travel ban is likely invalid under immigration law and the Constitution.

Lawyers for Dani Mathers met with a prosecutor in a judge's chambers Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office confirmed to ET on Wednesday that Mathers has pleaded no contest in the case and will have to perform 30 days of graffiti removal as well as serve 36 months probation.

Trump's Israel visit coincides with a very special day - the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty after 2000 years. There is also a fund to support Palestinians who have been imprisoned by Israel. But he avoided any mention of a Palestinian state and did not address a campaign promise to move the U.S.

The Nittany Lions open their season at home against Akron (12 p.m. ET, ESPN), but the bigger Week 1 game featuring a Big Ten team is MI at Florida in the AdvoCare Classic in Arlington, Texas (3:30 p.m., ABC ). on ESPN. ABC telecast when they host Miami. Kent State at Clemson, ESPN, Noon NC State vs. Belk College Kickoff Game , Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, N.C.

These reports spurred his supporters and all those who favoured moderation or opposed the hardliners to come out in big numbers. Despite the healthy margin of victory, Mr. He also picked a rare public fight with hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, angrily criticising their favourite in the race, Mr Ebrahim Raisi , a judge seen by reformists as representing the security state at its most fearsome.

When it comes to the ability of states to obtain waivers to establish their own essential health benefits , Mahone said he has seen nothing in the state legislature to indicate this will lead to issues for patients. A bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act has been "leveraged. into reform of the entire Medicaid program", said Greg Moody of the Office of Health Transformation in OH, run by the state's Republican governor, John R.

Here are some of the best reactions from Twitter . Wenger's future has been much discussed in recent months as his contract ends its final month before the 67-year-old becomes a free agent. " He needs to go for some tests and we will see how well he comes out of that ". "Some clubs are in a stronger position than us financially but I believe we are in a strong enough position, strong enough basic squad to compete at the top level".

It is the only time the clause, known as Article 5 , has been activated. Again condemning Monday's bombing in Manchester , Mr Trump said terrorism must be "stopped in its tracks". "One of the things that we understand in Canada is that investing in clean energy and investing in fighting against climate change is going to help us", Trudeau said, citing efforts by governments and businesses to find innovative ways to avoid polluting the planet.

Salman Abedi , the suicide bomber who killed 22 people in an attack on a pop concert in Manchester , was a business student who dropped out of university. Officials are probing how often Abedi had traveled to Libya, which has seen an eruption of armed Islamist groups since dictator Moammar Kadaffi was overthrown and killed in 2011.